Handwriting Therapy
Our Occupational Therapists will use techniques in a one-on-one setting to help children of all ages improve their handwriting.
Areas our Occupational Therapists help your child:
- Improving formation of horizontal lines, vertical lines, circles, and squares, which are early milestones for upper and lowercase letters
- Improving formation of upper and lower case letters
- Making Handwriting that is clear and legible
- Improving the ability to hold a crayon, pencil, or pen correctly
- Improving staying on the page they are writing
- Improving writing from left to right
- Reducing fatigue when writing due to reduced hand strength
- Reducing/eliminating frustration when writing
- Using an age-appropriate grasp on the writing utensil
- Developing proper posture in the chair
- Developing proper letter formation and sizing
- Meeting developmental milestones for writing
- Making writing fun
Children who would benefit include:
- Children with IEPs from the School
- Children who are a part of the TEIS Program
- Children with Global Apraxia
- Children with cochlear implants and Hearing Loss
- Children who have difficulty transitioning into new environments
- Children who have Developmental Language Delays
- Children with prosthetics
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Down Syndrome
- Children with Social/Pragmatic Language Disorders
- Children on the Autism Spectrum Continuum
- Children who have been diagnosed with Cognitive Delays
- Dysarthria (congenital or non-congenital)